Fewer US evangelicals support public school childhood vaccine requirements, survey shows
United StatesRNS In what could be a sign of COVID-19’s influence, some sectors of US society – specifically white evangelicals and Republicans – are showing a growing aversion to the requirement that schoolchildren be vaccinated for illnesses like mumps and measles. Overall, about 70 per cent of Americans say healthy children should be mandated to […]
Seasonal flu reports hit record lows amid global social distancing
Beijing, ChinaReuters Global social distancing rules targeting coronavirus have pushed influenza infection rates to a record low, early figures show, signalling that the measures are having an unprecedented impact on other communicable diseases. In China, where the earliest wide-scale lockdown measures began, new reports of diseases including mumps, measles and some sexually transmitted diseases, have […]
VACCINATIONS: FAITH IS NO EXCUSE FOR SKIPPING SHOTS, SAYS US MED SCHOOL PROFESSOR
TRACEY SIMMONS, of Religion News Service, reports from the US on the fight over vaccinations – and its intersection with faith…